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Name
Date
REVIEW
CHAPTER
1
Section 4
GEOGRAPHY APPLICATION: MOVEMENT
The Triangular Trade
Directions: Read the paragraphs below and study the map and pie graphs carefully. Then answer the questions that follow.
Southern colonies. However, the Northern colonies
also played a major part in this pattern.
Manufacturers there turned West Indian sugar and
molasses into rum. Some of this rum then was sent
to Africa as the first leg of the triangular trade and
was used to buy slaves.
A
trade route known as the triangular trade
developed among the American colonies, Africa,
and the West Indies. Over a period of 200 years,
the middle passage of the triangular trade brought
millions of Africans to work as slaves in the Americas.
The vast majority of slaves brought to North
America were bound for plantations in the
The Triangular Trade, 1600s to 1700s
IRELAND
ENGLAND
NEW FRANCE
E U RO P E
SP
AI
N
NEWFOUNDLAND
Gulf of
Mexico
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
rum
ish
f
ses,
olas
es, m
slav
sugar,
molasses
s
ve
sla
BRITISH
COLONIES
WES
T
AFRICA
IND
IES
Caribbean Sea
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PAC I F I C
OCEAN
slaves
(middle
passag
e)
SOUTH
AMERICA
Africans in Colonial Population
New England Colonies
1650
11%
1650
3%
1650
11%
3%
1750
Southern Colonies
Middle Colonies
2%
1750
1750
40%
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The Triangle Trade continued
Interpreting Text and Visuals
1. Why was the trade route of rum, slaves, and sugar and molasses called the
Triangular Trade? ______________________________________________________________
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2. Of what did the middle passage consist? ____________________________________________
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3. What were the destinations of the African slaves? ____________________________________
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Why do you think some slaves were kept in the West Indies? __________________________
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4. Which section of colonial America had the smallest percentage of Africans in 1750? ________
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5. Which section of the colonies showed a huge increase in the percentage of its
African population in about 1750? ________________________________________________
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6. What happened to the African population in New England and the Middle colonies
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7. Explain the increase in the percentage of the African population in the Southern
colonies during the years shown. __________________________________________________
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between 1650 and 1750? Why? __________________________________________________